From From Dereliction Mark Nowak

Mark Nowak

and sociality

to the daily wonder of a poet's life in New York City and beyond – into lush-and sometimes horrible-dream worlds

Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel

The poems here are like silhouettes dashing out of the past and passing

From From Dereliction Mark NowakMonica Youn Where are you from . . . ? Nowhere are you from from? Its a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying youll never belong here, youre a perpetual foreigner, youll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youns From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of authenticity, no experience of your so called homeland, how do you piece together